With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Go to Chinese App
Several TikTok users in the US have started using Xiaohongshu instead of TikTok after the US Supreme Court heard arguments on the app’s ban by January 19. A TikTok refugee going by the name of “Elle belle” said on the Xiaohongshu app that he was unable to read the rules. Some users said they would like to stick to a platform developed by a Chinese company.
The executive order was signed by Joe Biden
US President Joe Biden on Sunday announced new rules that will ban the sale of American-made artificial intelligence chips to Iran and North Korea. The rules will limit the sale of AI chips to companies operating data centres in the US, which is the world’s largest data centre market. They also set security standards for AI models that are built at federal sites.
It could be possible for TikTok to get a 270 day extension
TikTok will get harder to access in the US as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision to consider TikTok’s constitutionality, Kate Ruane, Director of the Free Expression Project, said. She added that even after the law takes effect, users won’t be banned from using the app if they have it on their phones. TikTok is owned by China’s ByteDance.
In a response to the Biden legislation, Nvidia flatters Trump
The US on Tuesday said that it will not allow AI systems in data centres to be exported to any country except the US. However, the rule does not ban exports of AI chips to other countries. “In the wrong hands, powerful AI systems have the potential to exacerbate significant national security risks,” the White House said.
The LA Fires could finally be the turning point for the tide
Over 153,000 people have been evacuated and 176,000 people were under warnings as of Saturday due to wildfires in the US state of California, Los Angeles sheriff’s department said. It added that the wildfires were under an “active and fluid investigation”. Meanwhile, National Weather Service said that winds will pick up this weekend and through Wednesday.
What do researchers think about Facebook dropping fact-checking?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, while discussing Facebook’s decision to end its third-party fact-checking program, said, “We’re doing this right after the election because people think the timing is good for it.” He added, “When one party…is spreading most of the misinformation, it’s going to look like fact-checks are biased because they’re getting called out way more.”
After the Supreme Court argued about TikTok’s case, it is likely that it will be banned
TikTok may be blocked in the US by January 19 if its owner, ByteDance, does not sell the US business by that date. US President-elect Donald Trump had originally proposed thatByteDance be forced to sell TikTok during his first presidential term, but has since reversed course. Trump has a number of options, including instructing his administration to not enforce the law.
The US would have a TikTok Ban
The US Supreme Court is set to hear TikTok’s appeal against the state of the Union law that would force the Chinese video-sharing app to shut down in the US. TikTok claims its data collection practices aren’t different from those of the leading US social media apps. However, the company says forcing it to stop working in the US represents an unprecedented government suppression of free speech.
These Newly Identified Cells may change the way plastic surgery is done
Researchers from California’s UC Irvine have found that bubble-wrap cells in skull and nose give extra cushion to various body parts. The findings showed that these cells are neither chondrocyte, adipocyte nor chondrocyte-like cells, researchers said. This could result in future implants that will be soft and flexible, a plastic surgeon who did not participate in the study said.
The leader of the far right in Germany agreed with the description of Hitler as a Communist
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has said that left-wing groups who support Palestine are more in common with Nazis than with the leader of the Alternative Deutschland (ADF) party. Musk’s comments came amid controversy over him hosting a debate with Alternative Deutschland’s leader on his platform X Spaces. Alternative Deutschland claims that it is the “sole protector of the Jewish people” in Germany.